Clin Physiol Funct Imaging (2015)
doi: 10.1111/cpf.12279
Combined effect of coffee ingestion and repeated bouts of low-intensity exercise on fat oxidation Kazumichi Kurobe1, Saori Nakao2, Masato Nishiwaki3 and Naoyuki Matsumoto2 1
Faculty of Business, Sports Management Course, Hannan University, Osaka, 2Faculty of Environmental and Symbiotic Sciences, Prefectural University of Kumamoto, Kumamoto, and 3Faculty of Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka, Japan
Summary Correspondence Kazumichi Kurobe, PhD, Faculty of Business, Sports Management Course, Hannan University, 5-4-33 Amami-Higashi, Matsubara-shi, Osaka 580-8502, Japan E-mail:
[email protected] Accepted for publication Received 13 August 2014; accepted 3 June 2015
Key words caffeine; energy substrate; fat metabolism; multiple bouts of exercise; oxygen uptake
We investigated the effect of the combination of coffee ingestion and repeated bouts of low-intensity exercise on fat oxidation. Subjects were seven young, healthy male adults. They performed four trials: a single 30-min bout of exercise following ingestion of plain hot water (WS) or coffee (CS); a trial with three 10min bouts of exercise separated by 10-min periods of rest following ingestion of plain hot water (WR) or coffee (CR). The coffee contained 5 mg kg 1 of caffeine. All trials were performed on a cycle ergometer at 40% maximal oxygen uptake for each subject an hour after beverage ingestion. Oxygen uptake in the CS and CR trials was higher compared with the WS and WR trials at 90 min after exercise (P